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W. N. BUTTON. BOOT 0R SHOE.

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(Application led Mar. 80, 1899.3

Patented Mar. I3, |900.

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IVILLIAM N. BUTTON, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE JOSEPH BANIGAN RUBBER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming partl of Letters Patent No. 645,068, dated March 13, 1900. Application filed March S0, 1899. Serial No. 711,071. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern Be it known that l, WILLIAM N. BUTTON, of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Boots or Shoes; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this speciiication.

This invention has reference to an improvement in boots or shoes, and is particularly applicable to rubber bootsvor shoes.

The object of the invention is to secure a warmer and more comfortable boot or shoe 5 and to this end the invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction whereby an air-space filled with fibrous material is formed between the outer and the inner lining of the boot or shoe, in which the air is confined, so as to prevent the conduction of the heat from the foot, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

Rubber boots and shoes are usually lined with cloth, one side of which has a smooth rubber-covered surface, the other side having a rough nap surface. This lining surrounds the foot usually to a point above the instep. In making up a rubber boot or shoe the lining of the vamp and quarters is placed on the last, with the fleece or nap side against the last, an insole is placed o n the bottom of the last, with the fleece side against the last, the vamp and quarters are then united along their margins to the rubber-covered side of the insole, and on this foundation the rubber boot or shoe is built up.

In carrying out my invention I may place the lining of the vamp and quarters on the last, with the rubber-covered surface toward the last, and secure the insole, on which the rubber-covered surface is also against the last, to the lining of the vamp and quarters. Another upper-lining piece is now placed with the eece or nap side against thel first, also fleece nap side of the lining already on the last, and is secured to a second insole, also placed with the nap side against the nap -side of the insole on the last, thereby producing two thicknesses of lining the iieece or nap sides of which face each other and form acontinuous air-space surrounding the foot, in

which the fleece or nap of the two adjacent sides forms a soft yielding cushion for the foot and an inclosed air-space maintained by the fleecy nap of The two adjacent sheets of lining.

In practice I find it more convenient to use two of the sheets of upper-linings, one of which has a projecting margin covered with 6o cement, and two insoles, one of which is larger than the other and has the margin covered with cement, and place the pair of soles and the pair of upper-linings with their iieece surfaces together and one of the rubber-faced surfaces on the last. The upper-linings are secured to the insoles, and the rest of the boot or shoe may be built up in the usual manner. The S10-constructed boot or shoe consists of the usual form of a rubber boot or shoe, the 7o inner surface of the foot portion of' which is covered with the fleece of the lining and a separate lining inclosing the foot of the wearer, the whole of the outer surface of which is covered with fleecy nap. The upper edges 7 5" of the sock are secured to the inner surface of the boot or shoe to form a closed air-space, which is maintained by the fleeces of the inner lining of the boot or shoe proper and the outer lining of the sock.

Figure l is a side view of one form of rubber boot made with my double lining, as indicated in broken lines. Fig. 2 is a plan View showing two sheets of upper-linings placed with the two iieece surfaces together. Fig. 3 85 is a plan view showing the two insoles placed with the fleece surfaces together. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view of the boot or shoe on the line A A of Fig. l.

In the drawings, l indicates a piece of cloth 9o having a rubber-covered surface on one side and a iieece-covered surface on the other side and cut, as shown in Fig. 2, to form the lining of a boot or shoe, and 2 a piece of cloth like l, cut sufficiently larger so as to have the projecting outer margin 3 and the inward-projecting margin 4. The margins 8 and 4 are covered with rubber cement. 5 is an insole cut from cloth having on one side a rubbercovered surface and a fleece-covered surface Ioo on the other side, and 6 a larger insole cut from a piece of material like the insole 5. The

outward-projecting margin of G is covered with rubber cement. The pieces l and 2 and 5 and 6 are placed, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, with the iieece surfaces in contact.

In the preferred form of making up the boot or shoe the two lining-pieces l and 2 are simultaneously placed on the last or any inside lining already on the last. The edges 7 '7 are brought together and secured by a jointing-strip. The two insoles 5 and 6 are placed on the bottom of the last, and the two linings l and 2 are secured to the two insoles 5 and 6 by means of the rubber-covered niargins, the lining being so lasted. The rest of the boot or shoe is built up in the usual manner, the inner -margins 4 i serving to secure the double lining to the shoe. boot or shoe constructed in this manner is much warmer than rubber boots or shoes as heretofore constructed and more comfortable in use.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-A l. A rubber boot or shoe, having the interior surface of the foot portion of the boot or shoe lined with a Heeey material, provided with a separate inner lining consisting of a sole and uppers united together to inclose the foot of the wearer and secured to the inside of the boot or shoe at the upper portion only, and a leecy material covering the outer surfaces of the sole and uppers forming the separate lining; whereby an air-space is maintained between the outer and the inner portions of the boot or shoe.

2. In a rubber boot or shoe, the combination with the insole and the uppers and quarters of the boot or shoe, lined on the inner surface with textile material, of an additional insole and additional uppers and quarters cemented together along their edges and lined on the outer surface with textile material;

whereby the textile material of the two sets of insoles and uppers forms an air-space and retards the conduction of heat from the foot of the wearer, as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

VILLIAM N. BUTTON. Vitnesses:

J. A. MILLER, Jr., B. M. SIMMs. 

